It was inevitable, really. It was inevitable from the moment the team-sheets
were handed in and both of those names were on them. It was inevitable,
really, that Chelsea against Liverpool would prove to be a cipher for John
Terry against Luis Suárez.

The Barclays Premier League’s two great villains have more in common than
their propensity to attract controversy and their ability to inspire
loathing. There is something that links them beyond their apparent failings
as men, those shortcomings that tend to distract and detract from what they
are employed, primarily, to do.